Immune responses against multiple epitopes: A theory for immunodominance and antigenic variation

Seminars in Virology

Volumn 7, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 83-92

  Nowak, Martin A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Antigenic variation; Cytotoxic T lymphocytes; HIV; Immunodominance; Mathematical model

Indexed keywords

EPITOPE; VIRUS ANTIGEN;

ANTIGEN RECOGNITION; ANTIGENIC VARIATION; ARTICLE; CELLULAR IMMUNITY; CYTOTOXIC T LYMPHOCYTE; HUMAN; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS 1; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTION; IMMUNOGENICITY; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; NONHUMAN; PERSISTENT INFECTION; VIRUS IMMUNITY; VIRUS INFECTION; VIRUS MUTANT;

HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS 1;

EID: 0030002936     PISSN: 10445773     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/smvy.1996.0010     Document Type: Article

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